anyone get unexpected / surprise results in DNA test?

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Anonymous wrote:My sister did hers and found out we are as white as white can be. Not a drop of anything interesting.

This is such a bizarre comment. White isn't an ethnicity, doofus.

I wanted something interesting to crop up, like a little East African, Somali, Indian, Maori, Roma. Instead, I find out out we're just boring English/Welsh/Irish people, like we've always been told. Frankly, disappointing.

Just stop it. You're ridiculous.

How am I ridiculous? You didn't think PP above (18:06) whose results were "totally expected and thus boring" was ridiculous.

This thread is all about finding something interesting in DNA results. My family's results were anything but. Which I found disappointing. How does that make me ridiculous?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I think is interesting is that my sister and share the same parents but have pretty different ethnic compositions. My mom is 100% italian, my dad is a combo of german, irish polish.

My sister is 60% italian, with less of the others.
I'm 20% italian, with more of the others.
Also, my son has more italian, 35%, than me.

Pretty cool.

Did you get your parents tested or are you guessing their percents?

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Anonymous wrote:My maternal grandmother was 100% French Canadian. All my other family is a grab bag of 100s of ethnicities. So if I do the test, will it come back as 100% French Canadian?

No, as pointed out above and assuming you are female, you will also have the DNA from the X chromosome your dad contributed. You just won't get the Y of your dad's paternal line.

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Anonymous wrote:What I think is interesting is that my sister and share the same parents but have pretty different ethnic compositions. My mom is 100% italian, my dad is a combo of german, irish polish.

My sister is 60% italian, with less of the others.
I'm 20% italian, with more of the others.
Also, my son has more italian, 35%, than me.

Pretty cool.

To add, my husband has no italian lineage.

OP here. So this interests me because my sibling had her DNA tested and I just assumed mine would be identical. Is the difference because your siblings used different DNA testing companies at different times, do you think? Or do you think it can be that variable between relatives?

My family all used the same DNA company kits at the same time. I assumed my sister and I would be almost identical. And thought I'd be 1/2 italian from my mom and 16 % each polish/german/irish from my dad but apparently, it doesn't work that way. I guess DNA can be inherited in endless variations. Maybe someone with a genetics background could explain this better.

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Anonymous wrote:My maternal grandmother was 100% French Canadian. All my other family is a grab bag of 100s of ethnicities. So if I do the test, will it come back as 100% French Canadian?

No, as pointed out above and assuming you are female, you will also have the DNA from the X chromosome your dad contributed. You just won't get the Y of your dad's paternal line.

Meaning, you get lots of info from both, just a tiny piece of your dad's that you don't get. The Y paternal haplogroup.

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Distantly related to an in law--Meaning my kid's uncle is allegedly also a distant cousin ( 5+ generations back... although we can go 5 generations back and are not aware of any common relative).. Asheknazi Jewish, so who knows how accurate this really is.

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Anonymous wrote:What I think is interesting is that my sister and share the same parents but have pretty different ethnic compositions. My mom is 100% italian, my dad is a combo of german, irish polish.

My sister is 60% italian, with less of the others.
I'm 20% italian, with more of the others.
Also, my son has more italian, 35%, than me.

Pretty cool.

To add, my husband has no italian lineage.

OP here. So this interests me because my sibling had her DNA tested and I just assumed mine would be identical. Is the difference because your siblings used different DNA testing companies at different times, do you think? Or do you think it can be that variable between relatives?

My family all used the same DNA company kits at the same time. I assumed my sister and I would be almost identical. And thought I'd be 1/2 italian from my mom and 16 % each polish/german/irish from my dad but apparently, it doesn't work that way. I guess DNA can be inherited in endless variations. Maybe someone with a genetics background could explain this better.

Thank you so much for answering. I'm going to take my own test, to compare to all these other results we've had.

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Anonymous wrote:According to 23 and Me, 99 percent of my ancestors are from various parts of the British Isles, and 1 percent are from Northeastern India. My ancestors have all been in Virginia for more than 300 years so I assume the ancestor from India must have come over as a servant to an English immigrant. I haven’t been able to identify specifically who it was. Possibly the used an anglicanized name.

It’s may be a Roma rather than an Indian.

Roma are from Central Europe and Middle East, not India.

But their ancestry prior to being there is largely Punjabi

yes this is totally correct, going further and further back on the immigration scale

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My sister did hers and found out we are as white as white can be. Not a drop of anything interesting.

This is such a bizarre comment. White isn't an ethnicity, doofus.

I wanted something interesting to crop up, like a little East African, Somali, Indian, Maori, Roma. Instead, I find out out we're just boring English/Welsh/Irish people, like we've always been told. Frankly, disappointing.

Just stop it. You're ridiculous.

How am I ridiculous? You didn't think PP above (18:06) whose results were "totally expected and thus boring" was ridiculous.

This thread is all about finding something interesting in DNA results. My family's results were anything but. Which I found disappointing. How does that make me ridiculous?

Op here and grateful for you input in this thread. Please ignore the asshats. they are everywhere and contribute 0%

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Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

I’m surprised you find this surprising. Many African Americans have a lot of European ancestry.

Maybe someone along the way said Native American to explain why they looked so white, because they didn’t want to get into the pain of explaining or thinking about their white ancestors raping their black ancestors….

Pp here. I was surprised about the 50/50 split. Not that there was any European at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish women could get info on their father's side. Well, you can, but you need a male relative to do the test, and I don't have one.

Wow. I had no idea this was the case. Thanks PP. Sorry about the male relative. I have a few but I don’t think he would be willing to take one.

It could be your brother, your father, your father's father, your father's brother, or a son of your father's brother (male cousin), and so on. Any male in that line will have the same Y. Your paternal great-great grandfather's brother's great-

great-great grandson. It could be your third cousin twice removed, but as long as they are related through a common male ancestor with no intervening females, it will be the same Y.

Wowsers! Thanks for the breakdown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister did hers and found out we are as white as white can be. Not a drop of anything interesting.

This is such a bizarre comment. White isn't an ethnicity, doofus.

I wanted something interesting to crop up, like a little East African, Somali, Indian, Maori, Roma. Instead, I find out out we're just boring English/Welsh/Irish people, like we've always been told. Frankly, disappointing.

Just stop it. You're ridiculous.

How am I ridiculous? You didn't think PP above (18:06) whose results were "totally expected and thus boring" was ridiculous.

This thread is all about finding something interesting in DNA results. My family's results were anything but. Which I found disappointing. How does that make me ridiculous?

Op here and grateful for you input in this thread. Please ignore the asshats. they are everywhere and contribute 0%

Thank you. I'm sincerely confused why that person found me "ridiculous".....

[Anonymous]

I have an old childhood friend on Facebook who grew up Christian with zero Jewish relatives. Her DNA test showed she has some Jewish ancestry which surprised her as she wasn't aware of having any Jewish relatives. Within a few days of posting about her newfound heritage, she was posting about her people and their struggles throughout history as Jews. That was funny.

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Anonymous wrote: I found out I’m a direct descendant of Jesse James. Yep, that was a surprise.

Do you have family from Missouri?

My friend has some relation to Jesse James and they just think it's so cool. Her kids told us "he was like Robin Hood, he stole from the rich and gave to the poor."

Not that I know of… I didn’t find this info cool - more so, creepy given the number of people he killed….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I think is interesting is that my sister and share the same parents but have pretty different ethnic compositions. My mom is 100% italian, my dad is a combo of german, irish polish.

My sister is 60% italian, with less of the others.
I'm 20% italian, with more of the others.
Also, my son has more italian, 35%, than me.

Pretty cool.

Did you get your parents tested or are you guessing their percents?

We did my mom's, my dad has been deceased for many years but I can see a bit of his family tree on ancestry.com